Nollywood Forever Movie Reviews
Nigerian & Ghanaian (African) Movie Reviews
These are the Nollywood African movies that you watch when you are bored, or perhaps when you are trying to multitask and cannot concentrate fully. This category is for Nollywood Movies rated between 36-55. Here you will find movies that have just scraped being condemned to the rubbish heap. These Nollywood movies may contain a few good elements, but then are riddled with errors like bad sound, boring unoriginal stories, long party scenes for no good reason, waka pass actresses that performed well on the casting couch etc etc... that really take away from a pleasurable viewing experience.
An unhappy queen (Eka Aribia) begs a peasant widow (Tonto Dikeh) to marry her husband, the King (John Dumelo) and set her free from a loveless marriage, but then the widow’s husband Chike (Sam Dede) comes back from the dead. We see two men battling for love and ego and two women each wanting to run away to a place of love and peace.
Ene (Angela Okorie) and Frieda (Mercy Johnson) are best friends who have fallen out. In the meantime Frieda seduces her Ene’s boyfriend who is a government official. This causes an even huger rift in the friendship, with two teams of friends posted against each other, which causes all and out war with each team trying to get the better of the other.
Mama (Patience Ozokwor) has arrived back in the village from America after visiting her daughter and puts on airs and graces as though she has been out of the country for decades rather than one year. On her return she does not contact her best friend or eldest daughter which leaves them resentful. Her friend Chinyere is envious of how she now parades around the village and despite smiling and joking with her spreads rumours around the village about how she is too proud of herself. She also starts putting pressure on her young daughters to find men to settle down with so she too can reap the benefits as Bridget has from her son in law.
Princess Olamma (Kay Samuel) is lonely and makes friends with some commoner girls Adugo and Udochi. Her parents at first encourage the fact that she wants to make new friends, that is until she insists on going out with her friends without her maids in tow. Her parents are concerned that harm may befall her without her maids to protect her. The Prince meets the Princess Olamma and her friends at the stream. He catches Olamma singing and falls for her voice, proposing almost immediately. Her friends are besieged with feelings of jealousy, in particular Adaugo. The question how far will she go to make the Prince drop the princess and notice her?
Both John and his wife Linda are having an affair with different members of their domestic staff. Linda is having cheating with the driver and John is having an affair with the housegirl. The driver is putting pressure on Linda to dump her husband but she is reluctant to divorce because of business and financial reasons. Likewise the house girl is putting pressure on John too. The games begin when husband and wife add a new dimension to their cheating ways. Roselyn and Prince are the other couple in the movie. They have a tumultuous relationship marred with bickering, physical fighting. They are both continuously complaining about each other but cannot live without each other. They too seek pleasures outside their marital home.
Roderick played by Desmond Elliot has a girlfriend Melissa played by Tonto Dikeh that he has been engaged to for over three years but he shows no interest at all in marrying. Roderick’s family are badgering him to take her as a wife but he does not know if he ever even wants to get married. Melissa is desperate to be married to him even employing his father to help her persuade him to marry her. In their desperation they hire Lydia, a psychoanalyst played by Oge Okoye to try and get to the bottom of why their son is so emotionally cold. Is there some psychological trauma from his past that he is hiding and has not overcome? Will he ever get married?
Ijeoma played by Charity “Cha Cha Eke” and her husband Thomas played by Dede One Day have been living in poverty for a long time. Things appear to be looking up when he is given a job interview in Lagos only for him not to be offered the job. It is after this misfortune that Ijeoma has had enough of the way in which they live and demands to be freed from the confines of the marriage. She flees to Lagos and dies in a car accident on the way. The movie really begins 9 years later when Thomas’ fortune has changed and he is now the rich guy. He is that guy that girls leave their poor husbands for.
This one is a story of forbidden love with a cultism and political backdrop. Both Edna (Eucharia Anunobi) and Alfred (Sam Dede) have both been promised the post of state governor by the current state governor. However they cannot both take the role and despite efforts to get them to see reason with each other neither will back down. Edna is affiliated with the Jungle Queens an all female deadly cult on campus while Alfred aligns himself with The Crocodiles a deadly male cult. The battle for the government post gets more and more gruesome with even more being at stake when the discovery is made that Sam’s son Milton (Mike Ezuruonye) and Edna’s daughter Barbara (Chioma Chukwuka) are dating and will not heed their parent’s advice to stay away from each other. How long will the battle rage and who will be the casualties?
Barry (Artus Frank) nicknamed The Mad Dog has been left a huge amount of wealth from his father. This wealth has brought him nothing but pain and attention from people who seek only to use him for his money. He begins to feel that his life is in danger and so leaves his life behind in pursuit of a new one, making a new start where no one knows him. This life is full of recklessness and whoring and it appears that his anonymity is about to be rescinded when a prostitute he meets starts blackmailing him threatening to reveal his whereabouts to his uncle after picking up his phone when it was left unattended. Barry manages to wrangle out of the sticky situation and the whore ends up naked with a noose round her neck. However his uncle finds tracks him down during a session with a prostitute. Barry finds himself running again. Why is his uncle to desperate to track him down?
A group of guys throw bikini parties, spike girl’s drinks and rape them. At one of these parties Mario played by Artus Frank takes a liking to Maureen played by Onyinye Alex and saves her from being raped by his friend Jack. In her unconscious state he takes her limp body to his family house. Maureen and Mario become firm friends despite the fact that his sister April played by Tonto Dikeh is reluctant to welcome her as his friend or anything else deeming her wayward. April soon drops her dislike for Maureen and the two girls become close. Maureen in turn has a very deep secret that she shares with Mario about her family life. It is a secret that ultimately affects her present and causes massive problems for everybody that she in involved with.
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